Mike O said:

Alderaan said:

Fang Zei said:

It's a sign that physical media is sticking around for at least a little longer.

Physical media will always be around. There will always be a market for it.

Digital d/l and physical are not an either/or proposition.

Yeah, but the market is going to become what it is in Japan: astronomically high prices for everything physical. It's already shifting that way with Twilight Time catalog titles.

That makes no sense. The presence of digital is an extreme downward influence on the price of physical.

The prices in Japan are based strictly on demand tolerances--in other words Japanese people are willing to pay more because they derive higher subjective marginal utility values from audio/visual media, and manufacturers can therefore price products accordingly. Has absolutely nothing to do with digital alternatives.